The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-11-11

! sight without glasses until lO1. Mr..
Charles Crowley died at Suncook, n. H.,
over 101. Frank Bodkn, a coIored man
of Montgomery, Ala, was believed to De
l1j at his death recently. When he was
about 60 years old he earned money and
purchased his freedom. Tony Morgan, a
blind negro. was recently living at Mobile,
105 years old. Pompey Graham, of Mont
| gomery, \. y, lately died at 119. and re-
tanned his faculties. Phebe Jenkins, of
Beaufort county, S. c., was believed to be
| 1870 years old when she died about a year
ago. Mrs. Louise Elgin, of Seymour, Ind.
whose mother lived to be III. was recently
living at 100.
"lenny White, a colored woman, died
in st. Joseph, Mo, Monday last, aged 1879
| years. She was born in the eastern part of
Georgia, and when 20 years OF age was
| taken to Tennessee, where abe remained
for ninety-six years. She had lived in st.
Joseph about ten years. She was cook
for Captain Waterfall, Of George Washing
toms staff, during the war of the Revolu
ngton well, and used to tell a number of
interesting stories about early times. She
died in full possession Of all her mental
faculties, but was a cripple and helpless"
| In the first number of the journal it was
stated that although women We're from two
to sig per cent. more numerous In popula-
ton, more males were born by four to six
teen per cent. This was a typographical
error; it should have been from four to six
per cent, generally four. The greatest
excess of males is in illegitimate births.
| The reversal Of proportions in the progress
Of life shows that the male morality is
more tranquil habits and greater predom-
nance of the moral nature in women in
creases their longevity, while the greater
Indulgence of the passion and appeties,
the greater muscular and intellectual force
among men are hostile to longevity, Hence
the establishment of traa religion, or the
application OF the New Education" will
greatly increase longevity. twill also be
increased by greater care of health in man
ufaeturing establishments and by dimin-
ishing the hours Of labor; for e4hausting
physical labor not only shortens life, but
predisposes to intemperanee. The curious
effects of excessive toll is shown In the
shorter lives of the poor, and is enforced by
Finlason's Report on Friendly Societies
to the British Parliament, which says (p
21D: "The practicable difference in the
distribution Of sickness aeem to turn upon
the amount of the expenditure of physical
force. This is no new thing, for in all ages
the enervation and deerepitude of the bod
lily frame has been observed to follow
prodigal waste of the mental or corporal
energies. But it has been nowhere previously
established upon rec1 rded experience that
the quantum of sickness annually falling
to the lot Of man is in direct proportion
to the demands upon his muscular power.
So it would seem, however.
Phlanthropists should, therefore, unite
in limiting the hours of daily labor to ten
or less. But more quiet pursuits have
greater endurance; women keeping house
have no ten-hour limit, and the editor of
the Journal gives more than twelve hours
q day to his daily labor.
The ST. Louis Globe Democrat says:
''James James, negro and citizen of the
United States, who resides at Santa Rosa,
Mexico, is probably the Oldest man on
earth. lie was born near Dorchester, 5.
c., in 1852.
The Sun says: "a town in Cuba prides
itself upon the home of eleven women, each
OF whom is over 100 years of age" Ae-
cording to the census of Germany, Deem
Der 1915, there were 100 persons over 100
years of age, of whom there was one wo-
man rs years and another III, one man of
11S aud another of 1870. Our own county
has better longevity than this.
Let us rest content With the fact that the
world has many centenarians, and that we
too are free to live hundred years, if our
ancestors have done their duty in trans
hitting good constitution, and We have
done our duty in preserving it.-Joarna1
Of 4Uan.